KYIV: Ukraine stated on Thursday its forces had flown the nation’s flag in Russian-annexed Crimea throughout a “particular operation” to mark its second wartime Independence Day, as Norway introduced fighter jets for Kyiv.
Kyiv has repeatedly stated it goals to take again Crimea, which is recognised internationally as a part of Ukraine however has been managed by Russia since 2014, when Moscow’s forces seized the peninsula.
Ukraine’s GUR intelligence company stated its particular forces had landed in a single day on Crimea’s western shore close to the cities of Olenivka and Mayak, the place they’d “engaged in fight”.
“In consequence, the enemy suffered losses amongst personnel. Enemy gear was destroyed,” it stated, including that the “state flag flew once more within the Ukrainian Crimea”.
The assault, it stated, was a part of a “particular joint operation” with the nation’s navy.
Ukraine has launched a number of assaults on the Black Sea peninsula because the begin of Moscow’s invasion, and refers back to the territory as “quickly occupied” in statements.
On Wednesday, Kyiv stated it had destroyed a robust Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system in that space, inflicting a “painful blow” on enemy air defences.
The in a single day operation was introduced on Ukraine’s Independence Day because the conflict with Russia entered its nineteenth month.
‘Tough occasions’
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Retailer, who made a shock Independence Day go to to Kyiv, introduced that his nation would donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to bolster its Soviet-era air power.
They might launch extra particulars on what number of planes and over what time scale “in the end”, he added.
Norway is the third nation after Denmark and the Netherlands to pledge F-16s to Ukraine, which has lengthy sought the jets to spice up its conflict effort.
In his Independence Day message, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukrainians to not “lose religion in these tough occasions”.
“We honoured the reminiscence of the fallen defenders of our nation,” Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in a Telegram message after visiting Saint Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv along with his spouse.
Freedom, he added, is a “worth for every of us and we’re preventing for it”.
On Khreshchatyk Avenue within the coronary heart of the capital, Kyiv, individuals took selfies subsequent to charred and wrecked Russian tanks and armoured automobiles captured from the battlefield.
Folks milled across the avenue, gazing on the {hardware} that had been organized in an extended line as conflict trophies.
The nation’s head of army intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, stated on Telegram that the combat for independence “continues to at the present time — now with the imperial aggressor” Russia.
The state vacation, which marks 32 years since Ukraine declared its post-Soviet independence from Moscow, comes as Kyiv’s troops proceed to pursue a protracted counter-offensive towards Russian forces.
Strikes on infrastructure
A Russian missile strike wounded at the least 10 individuals have been within the central metropolis of Dnipro, a regional administration official wrote on Telegram. Not less than three of them needed to be hospitalised.
The official posted a number of images of a broken transport facility, exhibiting gutted buildings, shattered home windows and particles.
In southern Ukraine, Russian shelling within the southern metropolis of Kherson wounded a seven-year-old woman, who was rushed to hospital, regional administration official Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
Ukrainian troops recaptured town in November and it continues to face Russian bombardment.
DTEK, the biggest industrial power firm in Ukraine, stated on Telegram that one in all its thermal energy crops was hit by Russian bombardment, It suffered harm within the assault however there have been no casualties, it added.
This was simply the newest in a sequence of assaults on the plant. Repeated strikes on power infrastructure final winter plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and chilly.
In Moscow, a court docket sentenced Russian blogger and political activist Maxim Katz in absentia to eight years jail on costs of getting unfold “false data” concerning the Russian military.
Katz, who has fled Russia, often criticises the battle on his YouTube channel, which has greater than 1.8 million subscribers
One other Russian court docket prolonged by three months the detention of Wall Avenue Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich, who had been reporting from Russia through the conflict when he was arrested and accused of spying.
And the US introduced contemporary sanctions on Russian officers and teams on Thursday over what rights organisations name the pressured switch of 1000’s of Ukrainian kids since Moscow’s invasion.
Kyiv has repeatedly stated it goals to take again Crimea, which is recognised internationally as a part of Ukraine however has been managed by Russia since 2014, when Moscow’s forces seized the peninsula.
Ukraine’s GUR intelligence company stated its particular forces had landed in a single day on Crimea’s western shore close to the cities of Olenivka and Mayak, the place they’d “engaged in fight”.
“In consequence, the enemy suffered losses amongst personnel. Enemy gear was destroyed,” it stated, including that the “state flag flew once more within the Ukrainian Crimea”.
The assault, it stated, was a part of a “particular joint operation” with the nation’s navy.
Ukraine has launched a number of assaults on the Black Sea peninsula because the begin of Moscow’s invasion, and refers back to the territory as “quickly occupied” in statements.
On Wednesday, Kyiv stated it had destroyed a robust Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system in that space, inflicting a “painful blow” on enemy air defences.
The in a single day operation was introduced on Ukraine’s Independence Day because the conflict with Russia entered its nineteenth month.
‘Tough occasions’
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Retailer, who made a shock Independence Day go to to Kyiv, introduced that his nation would donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to bolster its Soviet-era air power.
They might launch extra particulars on what number of planes and over what time scale “in the end”, he added.
Norway is the third nation after Denmark and the Netherlands to pledge F-16s to Ukraine, which has lengthy sought the jets to spice up its conflict effort.
In his Independence Day message, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukrainians to not “lose religion in these tough occasions”.
“We honoured the reminiscence of the fallen defenders of our nation,” Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in a Telegram message after visiting Saint Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv along with his spouse.
Freedom, he added, is a “worth for every of us and we’re preventing for it”.
On Khreshchatyk Avenue within the coronary heart of the capital, Kyiv, individuals took selfies subsequent to charred and wrecked Russian tanks and armoured automobiles captured from the battlefield.
Folks milled across the avenue, gazing on the {hardware} that had been organized in an extended line as conflict trophies.
The nation’s head of army intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, stated on Telegram that the combat for independence “continues to at the present time — now with the imperial aggressor” Russia.
The state vacation, which marks 32 years since Ukraine declared its post-Soviet independence from Moscow, comes as Kyiv’s troops proceed to pursue a protracted counter-offensive towards Russian forces.
Strikes on infrastructure
A Russian missile strike wounded at the least 10 individuals have been within the central metropolis of Dnipro, a regional administration official wrote on Telegram. Not less than three of them needed to be hospitalised.
The official posted a number of images of a broken transport facility, exhibiting gutted buildings, shattered home windows and particles.
In southern Ukraine, Russian shelling within the southern metropolis of Kherson wounded a seven-year-old woman, who was rushed to hospital, regional administration official Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
Ukrainian troops recaptured town in November and it continues to face Russian bombardment.
DTEK, the biggest industrial power firm in Ukraine, stated on Telegram that one in all its thermal energy crops was hit by Russian bombardment, It suffered harm within the assault however there have been no casualties, it added.
This was simply the newest in a sequence of assaults on the plant. Repeated strikes on power infrastructure final winter plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and chilly.
In Moscow, a court docket sentenced Russian blogger and political activist Maxim Katz in absentia to eight years jail on costs of getting unfold “false data” concerning the Russian military.
Katz, who has fled Russia, often criticises the battle on his YouTube channel, which has greater than 1.8 million subscribers
One other Russian court docket prolonged by three months the detention of Wall Avenue Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich, who had been reporting from Russia through the conflict when he was arrested and accused of spying.
And the US introduced contemporary sanctions on Russian officers and teams on Thursday over what rights organisations name the pressured switch of 1000’s of Ukrainian kids since Moscow’s invasion.
